Twitter

URL shorteners are great tools to make more space for personalization on your tweets.

Twitter may be public domain, but to thrive and survive, you need to follow a few basic best practices guidelines.

A direct message, a DM for short, is a post sent privately to another Twitter user while signed on to the platform.

Your Twitter username is your identifier within the micro-blogging community. To get started, you will need to create a unique username.

A trend on Twitter refers to a hashtag-driven topic that is immediately popular at a particular time. Trends are often created to promote a cause, an event or simply to build a massive online discussion about a subject.

Hashtags have been a popular and effective way to bring ideas together from people all over the world -- and a solid technique for marketers to reach their target consumers.

Not all characters are acceptable for use with hashtags. Here's what works and what doesn't.

A hashtag is a keyword phrase used in Twitter conversations with the primary purpose of bringing conversations on the same topic in a single thread.

A tweet chat, sometimes called a Twitter party, refers to the collective use of a specific hashtag within a specified time, mostly with the goal to promote an event or move a cause forward.

Faith is such a strong force to bring people together -- and for the church, one surefire way to get people involved in a cause is to reach out through social media.

Twitter is gearing up for a strong Latin American presence by setting up a sales office in Brazil.

Twitter goes beyond 140 characters and into live reality TV.